[Eosinophilic activation based on measurements of eosinophil cationic protein in patients with acute myocardial infarction and patients with angina pectoris].

Increased activation of polymorphonuclear neutrophils in the wideness of irreversible myocardial injury was described by many authors. Released proteolytic enzymes may cause deliquescence of necrotic muscle tissue and attenuate collagenic structure of myocardium, lead to endothelium damage and generate free oxygen radicals. Eosinophilic leucocytes reveal also enhanced proinflammatory activation.

[Early post myocardial infarction syndrome--a trial of assessment based on clinical course and immunologic tests].

The study analysed clinical and immunological course of 22 patients (aged 56.3 +/- 9.5) with fever (38.

The immunologic response to tobacco antigens in smokers. III. Type III hypersensitivity skin reactions and specific serum precipitins to four different tobacco extracts in patients suffering from coronary artery disease.

In a population of 70 patients suffering from coronary heart disease (49 smokers and 21 non-smokers) intradermal tests and specific precipitation tests with four different extracts of tobacco were performed. Skin tests with tobacco extracts were positive in 41 smokers and 7 nonsmokers. In both groups the immediate and delayed type reactions were weak and of rather doubtful specificity, while the late type reaction was usually more frequent and stronger in smokers (in 14 patients it was positive with all preparations).